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Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer returns with “a romantic gem” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman who decides to finally live for herself rather than rely on the universe for answers.

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man,... Read more

True Grit

By: Charles Portis

Narrated by: Donna Tartt

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie -- as vital as she is innocent --... Read more

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

By: Iain Reid

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why…

I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.

Jake once said, “Sometimes a... Read more

A Burning: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Megha Majumdar

Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Priya Ayyar, Deepti Gupta, Ulka Sim...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK! • A "gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary"  (USA Today) about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.

Jivan is a Muslim... Read more

With the Fire on High

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Awards® WINNER - Narration by Author
2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Young Adult From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.
Don't miss the audiobook, read by... Read more

Coraline

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film""Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house....""When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But... Read more

The Rage of Dragons

By: Evan Winter

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.

Winner of the Reddit/Fantasy Award for Best Debut Fantasy Novel

The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are... Read more

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

By: Fredrik Backman

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her... Read more

Queenie

By: Candice Carty-Williams

Narrated by: Shvorne Marks

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

*NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES*

*ONE of NPR’s and TIME’s BEST BOOKS of the YEAR * NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of the YEAR by WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, and BOOK RIOT!*

“A book that sneaks up on you...I am hooked.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author

This acclaimed and “welcome debut from a seriously talented... Read more

And How Does That Make You Feel?

By: Joshua Fletcher

Narrated by: Joshua Fletcher

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychotherapist Josh Fletcher takes us on a tour of the inner mind of a therapist—revealing a hilariously candid point of view on the therapeutic process, a practical guide to therapy, and maybe a few more cobwebs and dark corners than one might expect. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about therapy (and maybe a few things you didn’t).... Read more

We Will Rest!

By: Tricia Hersey

Narrated by: Tricia Hersey

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance
 
We don’t believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking has been limited by disconnection, sleep deprivation, and the unattainable call for perfection. The... Read more

The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman’s lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world.

Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak... Read more

Biography of X : A Novel

By: Catherine Lacey

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM... Read more

Rouge

By: Mona Awad

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Bestseller
A USA TODAY Bestseller
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor, and Literary Hub

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age” (Good... Read more

Kill the Farm Boy

By: Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In an irreverent series in the tradition of Monty Python, the bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly written feast scenes.

“Ranks among the best of Christopher Moore and Terry Pratchett.”—Chuck Wendig

“When you put two authors of this high caliber together, expect... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado... Read more

Zero Days

By: Ruth Ware

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware proves that she is the “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.

Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists... Read more

Carry On

By: Rainbow Rowell

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author!

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.

That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.

Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his... Read more

Midnight Rooms

By: Donyae Coles

Narrated by: Georgina Campbell

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“An immersive horror fairy tale marrying Crimson Peak to Pan’s Labyrinth upon strange foundations. You’re never really safe here, with Midnight Rooms wondrously defying expectation and refusing obedience. Donyae Coles leads us into a house of sinister magic, full of corners for peeking around, but careful—these walls have claws. A feverish,... Read more

Sex, Lies and Sensibility

By: Nikki Payne

Narrated by: Kacie Rogers, Phil Ava & Nikki Payne

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Nikki Payne skillfully spins the tale of a well-known Jane Austen classic and makes it entirely her own. Thoughtful, hilarious, and smolderingly steamy.”—Kristina Forest, author of The Partner Plot

Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must learn to work with the locals in this deliciously spicy novel inspired by Sense... Read more

Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

Narrated by: Dana Varden & Zim Avaltrades

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup.

Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new... Read more

The Stardust Thief

By: Chelsea Abdullah

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Sean Rohani & Rasha Zamamiri

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp.Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn... Read more

The Blonde Identity

By: Ally Carter

Narrated by: Emily Ellet & Andrew Eiden

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

""A unique, delightful, hilarious, unputdownable romance… I’m wonderstruck by The Blonde Identity!"" — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisThe New York Times bestselling YA author of the beloved Gallagher Girls series bursts onto the adult scene with a fast-paced, hilarious road trip rom-com about a woman with... Read more

Family Upstairs

By: Lisa Jewell

Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland & Dominic Thorburn

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

“Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.” —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author

“A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read.” —Megan Miranda, New York... Read more